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performing

ADJECTIVE
fulfilling a function
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ADJECTIVE
taking part in a presentation
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The top performing sectors during these periods were healthcare and consumer-discretionary stocks like restaurants, delivering relatively paltry returns of 0.29% and 0.31% a month, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Over the past year, XLE has been the second-best performing sector, rallying 45% and trailing only technology.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

In written testimony, Glynn shared his experience hearing about young women performing illegal abortions when he was a freshman at the University of South Dakota in 1966.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Sea hags have nothing on the fear of performing Nile’s drunken dancing in “The Beast in Me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

After performing that hazardous job for a few years and setting some aviation records, her career options began to open up.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson




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